Chapter 11: Mirrors
The next morning, Link heard someone arrive and went to check it out.
Darunia had arrived and said, "I'm here!"
He then gave Link a painful pat on the back. A bewildered second later, Link realized that he was half-buried in the sand and his legs were buried.
"Uhh…Little help here?" He asked.
He then began the long struggle of trying to heave himself out of the sand. It took five or ten minutes, but he eventually got out of the sand trap. He then glared at Darunia and the goron boss rubbed the back of his head.
"Okay. Note to self: No pats on the back in the desert." Darunia said in an apologetic voice.
The look on Link's face seemed to say, "You got that right."
Some time into the afternoon, Link heard a very singsong voice and recognized it all too well.
"Oh, Li-ink!!" The voice called.
He was about to make a run for it when Ruto collided with him. Fortunately, she tripped and her arms missed Link. Link took the opportunity to scramble to his feet and race away as fast as his legs would carry him.
"Don't worry, Link. She's a zora. Before long, she'll dehydrate…" He said to himself.
Link looked over his shoulder and saw that Ruto had brought a canteen of water. As Link watched, she continued to pour it on herself and then refill it with water magic.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Link cursed as the zora princess continued to pursue him.
Luckily for Link, someone warned, "Stop chasing Link or the world will end as we know it."
That got Ruto and she stopped chasing him. Apparently, Impa arrived shortly after Ruto. Link turned and gave the thumbs' up to Impa, who smiled at that thing that had happened a few seconds ago.
When everyone was together, Link spoke with the white-garbed Gerudo.
"Excuse me, miss? Do you know where we can find Nabooru?"
The Gerudo dipped her head in thought and snapped her fingers after a few seconds.
"You'll find her in the Desert colossus near the oasis."
"Thank you, ma'am." Link quickly added.
They then started their perilous journey through the great sandstorm. It was especially hard on Ruto. Sand was getting all over her and drying out her wet skin. She had to frequently form water in her canteen and pour it on herself.
"WHY did it have to be a desert?" She whined out loud.
Link gave her the 'EVIL EYE' and the fish lady immediately shut her trap.
They struggled through the haunted wasteland to the strange rock formation that was the Desert Colossus. When they arrived at the oasis, Nabooru was nowhere to be seen.
"You gotta be kidding me." Link said to himself.
He turned and commanded, "Split up." The other sages did so.
She wasn't in the secret cave, in the palm trees, not even around the desert. When they thought they looked everywhere and just about gave up, they found her. She was inside the Spirit Temple and looked very happy to see Link and the other sages.
"Well long time no see, kid." The sly Gerudo commented.
"Yeah. It's been…7 years, I believe." Link answered.
"What's been happening, kid?"
The two continued on in a conversation that seemed to last all night. Zelda rolled her eyes, but caught herself from screaming in frustration. After all, Nabooru was something like an aunt to Link. So, Zelda couldn't blame them.
When the two were in a pause, she then spoke.
"Link, just do it." Zelda whispered in his ear.
Link's expression changed to realization.
"Oh. I almost forgot." He said as he fumbled in his pockets.
After a while, he found what he was looking for and held up the light medallion.
"Hey, is that…" Nabooru started, but a flash of light caught her in the forehead and she stood there like a zombie.
She ended up in the realm that all the other sages had been. The sound of Rauru's voice sounded for the final time.
"Nabooru, you will pull the sword of the Spirit Temple from the pedestal. This is my final request, DESTROY GANONDORF AND THE MASK THAT BEFRIENDED HIM!" These were Rauru's last words.
Nabooru, without further ado, found the last sword. It looked more like a scimitar with citrines and the face of a woman in the middle of the hilt. She grabbed the curved sword and yanked it from the pedestal. An orange flash and she was back in the spirit temple. She woke up looking into a pair of big blue eyes and sat up so quickly, she nearly collided with Saria's nose. Link looked ready to explain, but Nabooru instinctively knew what happened.
"Link, I know what we must do. We've got to find Ganondorf and a mask." She told Link.
Link looked rather surprised, but regained his look of confidence.
"Alright then. Let's go!" Link commanded.
He was about to turn to leave, but then a voice sprung as if from nowhere.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Link froze and said, "Oh no."
He saw this coming and quickly drew his sword. "You cannot face me until you pass my final test. Come out, my servant!"
Suddenly, the room where they were lit up and the walls were covered in mirrors. One mirror swirled like water and out popped a strange creature. It had a toad-like head with four horns similar to a goat's and teeth like a bulldog's, but a human's body with clownish garbs in every color of the rainbow. On its body was something that looked like a two-open door.
"Meet Majora's Divine!" Ganondorf/Majora shouted.
When he finished, the clownish creature cackled, stuck out its tongue, and blew a raspberry. Link found that VERY annoying and it made him want to get this over with QUICKLY.
"If you somehow manage to defeat it, I'll meet you in Hyrule Field."
With a snap of his fingers, Ganondorf/Majora vanished.
Suddenly, without warning, the creature attacked by swiftly running around the room trying to slam into anyone in his way. Impa couldn't use her sword's magic, because the darn clown wouldn't stop moving. It also made her vulnerable and the creature delivered a sharp kick that caught Impa across the face. The sheikah was knocked unconscious and was momentarily out of the picture. Zelda raised her sword and created the substance all dark beings hate: light. Saria whipped out her bow and fired an arrow through the light at the monster. Divine had been waiting for this and eagerly opened the door thing, revealing 3 mirrors. The mirror had 3 blurred images, but the arrow was heading straight into the middle one, which happened to be Link's back. When the arrow hit the mirror, it disappeared into the mirror like throwing a stone into water. Then Link felt a pain in his back and bent forward. The arrow had caught him right in the back, but since he was good, the light arrow didn't hurt him. He grabbed the arrow and painfully pulled it out. When Link was in pain, Divine gave a cackle and blew another raspberry. Saria ran quickly to Link's aid and inspected his wound
"Sorry about that." She apologized.
Link looked up and sarcastically said, "Oh, don't worry. No harm done."
When it became apparent that Saria wouldn't be trying again, Darunia decided to give it a try. He ran over to Divine and tried slamming his fist into the beast, but it was like punching water. Darunia then felt something collide with his face. His own fist was sticking out of another mirror and the goron boss ended up punching himself. He fell to the floor with a huge black eye and the look of a beat-up guy. Ruto wielded her sword and fired an electric beam at Divine. He opened the mirrors and, instead of reflecting an image, the electricity bounced off one mirror and back at Ruto. She ducked and the energy ended up blowing a hole in the wall. A second sooner and she would have been a fish filet. Saria tried her luck again after tending to Link's wounds and fired an arrow at Divine's right mirror. This time, the image was Divine's back. The arrow pelted it in the back and he cried out in pain. Link then got the idea and soon a plan was made.
Zelda was about to fire a light beam when Link shouted, "Not yet!"
Zelda looked a little surprised, but did what Link told her. She then saw that the images were clearing up a bit. When Divine's outline was clear, she fired and the beam caught him again. Divine screamed in pain and Zelda then understood and told everyone this strategy.
When Divine was beaten up a bit, he forgot about his mirrors and began running around like a chicken. Saria fired an arrow only to miss by a mile. She ended up getting slammed by a pirouette and knocked to the ground. Link was solemnly reminded of Majora's Incarnation, but Divine was far quicker and possibly more annoying. Every attack they threw was either avoided or intercepted. Then the turning point: Saria fired an arrow, but fired it ahead of Divine so that he ended up walking right into it. The bolt caught Divine right in the leg and he ended up tripping. As Divine struggled to get up, Link took this time to dash over to Divine and stick his sword into the beast's back. The clownish creature howled in pain, every one of its mirrors broke, and it skeletonized. After a brief checkup on Impa, they found she was okay. They would go for him when she recovered.
Miles away in Hyrule Field, Majora felt the presence of his fifth soldier leave.
"NO! That was my last soldier. I never imagined this kid to be so powerful. When I conquer this place, I'll eradicate all swordsmen!" Majora said out loud.
"What do you mean 'you'?" Ganondorf asked.
Then Majora's Mask had some silence, but Ganondorf soon figured it out. He decided to wait, though, to see if Majora was doing what he thought he was doing.
MAN! That thing is annoying...I wouldn't want to fight IT on any Zelda game. Majora's Incarnation was annoying enough.